About the book: 1985 / Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836–1861) - one of the founders of Russian revolutionary democracy, an outstanding literary critic and materialist philosopher, ally of N. G. Chernyshevsky. The book introduces the life and writings of the thinker, shows his decisive role in the development of a number of the most important sections of revolutionary democratic ideology. For a wide range of readers.